Wednesday, 5 January 2011

The rebound

With the December/January period being a busy chess playing period, there are going to be some players facing the same opponents twice or three times. Under these circumstances it will either be a case of one player having the wood over the other, or a chance to even the score.

In the third round of the Australian Open, GM Zong Yuan Zhao faced up against Andrew Brown, who had defeated him in the third round of the recently completed Gold Coast tournament. However lightning didn't strike twice and Zhao turned the tables on Brown, with a nice tactical win.